no I discussed in 30 miles from here I
had one of my first jobs I worked at an
elementary school did hair and nose an
interesting experience I found it very
difficult to explain to the kids with
these things are in my ears or why I
talked the way I do so we were to help
them understand what my hearing loss
lawyers or how my hearing aids help me
you did an analogy that relate to the
theme tonight but moreover was an
analogy that at that point in my life I
truly believed myself I told them that
my hearing aid gave me super powers and
not jokingly draw as far as telling them
at RIT here 100 miles away and through
the bathroom walls and you know the kids
were incredibly awestruck by the
technology and how they proceeded it’s a
benefit individuals like myself but I’m
here today because I want to talk about
the misconceptions surrounding cochlear
implants in hearing aid and more the
unintentional consequences now many of
these misconceptions stem from videos
we’ve all seen online of deaf children
deaf adults hearing for the first time I
didn’t know cochlear implants and
hearing aid turned on but before I begin
I really want to say I’m incredibly
grateful that a device you know that’s
not an inch in length has given me the
ability to communicate with my hearing
friends and family but there’s a lot
that these videos don’t show and there’s
a cultural tug-of-war that the medical
community often fails to address see
around 90 percent of deaf children are
born to hearing parents I was one of
them my mom and dad or any other hearing
parents didn’t have much knowledge of
deaf culture a deaf community when I was
born so naturally want to hear and
parent finds the child is deaf typically
the immediate reaction is to turn to the
expertise of the medical community who
then say for your child to have the
greatest chance of success we must
immediately give them a cochlear implant
or hearing aid after all we live in a
world with sound as cherish the world
where a significant amount of
information is disseminated via audio
channels verbally an access to that
information and our ability to interact
and that can communicate with those
around us largely depends on one’s
ability to hear it shouldn’t but this is
how it is know myself and many other
deaf individuals were led to believe
from a very young age to be successful
we needed to have a hearing aids and
implant yeah my hearing aids would solve
all my problems and I’d no longer have
any difficulty communicating with my
friends and family you know what I
quickly realized was despite having even
the most powerful technology despite the
hours of speech therapy didn’t put out a
class in elementary and middle school
and so on I still struggled though
always situations in which my hearing
aid didn’t help me and in fact they
often made my life a lot more difficult
because they perpetuated this myth that
as soon as I put them in I would always
suddenly a hearing person able to
understand everyone and everything
around me but you have to understand
what deafness is right deafness is much
more than just how they have self sound
and it’s also about the clarity of that
sound so to help people understand what
my life is like as a deaf individual I
use an analogy imagine you’re watching a
foreign language film okay you hear
dialogues you hear conversations being
had you don’t actually know what they’re
saying turning the volume up on the TV
it’s not going to help you understand
what’s being said anymore
now apply that same concept to cochlear
implants and hearing aids always it does
is amplified gibberish and knowledge
that I’m not able to interpret or
understand I won’t be able to understand
anything
even with my hearing aid the most
powerful technology unless I have access
to non verbal or visual forms of
communication whether that be sign
language through much time at which
interpreter close caption and so I can
read what’s being said or having access
to full Facebook button so I can nibbly
and you know it’s funny I truly grew up
or even that I was born in a world that
just wasn’t designed to finally of
individuals like myself you know but uh
ironically research shows that the
majority of communication is nonverbal
think about that the majority of how we
interact connect and communicate with
those around us it’s not really
depending on what you what you hear but
from what you see you know what asking
the wrong question the question is not
how can we give this deaf baby access to
sound but rather how can we give them
access to language language acquisition
is the end goal for all children both
hearing and death healing babies healing
babies can acquire language skills
through sign language exposure before
they can even read write a speech no
later in life I realize my stoop
did not come from the technology behind
my ears my ability to truly interact and
understand those around me came from
whether or not I had access to visual
forms of communication no I imagine a
future where it’s not just the Deaf who
benefit from cyanide with dispersion and
other forms of nonverbal communication
that’s everyone and moreover I envision
a future in which learning sign language
and CN sign language it’s just as common
and mainstream at learning how to speak
thank you [Applause]
had one of my first jobs I worked at an
elementary school did hair and nose an
interesting experience I found it very
difficult to explain to the kids with
these things are in my ears or why I
talked the way I do so we were to help
them understand what my hearing loss
lawyers or how my hearing aids help me
you did an analogy that relate to the
theme tonight but moreover was an
analogy that at that point in my life I
truly believed myself I told them that
my hearing aid gave me super powers and
not jokingly draw as far as telling them
at RIT here 100 miles away and through
the bathroom walls and you know the kids
were incredibly awestruck by the
technology and how they proceeded it’s a
benefit individuals like myself but I’m
here today because I want to talk about
the misconceptions surrounding cochlear
implants in hearing aid and more the
unintentional consequences now many of
these misconceptions stem from videos
we’ve all seen online of deaf children
deaf adults hearing for the first time I
didn’t know cochlear implants and
hearing aid turned on but before I begin
I really want to say I’m incredibly
grateful that a device you know that’s
not an inch in length has given me the
ability to communicate with my hearing
friends and family but there’s a lot
that these videos don’t show and there’s
a cultural tug-of-war that the medical
community often fails to address see
around 90 percent of deaf children are
born to hearing parents I was one of
them my mom and dad or any other hearing
parents didn’t have much knowledge of
deaf culture a deaf community when I was
born so naturally want to hear and
parent finds the child is deaf typically
the immediate reaction is to turn to the
expertise of the medical community who
then say for your child to have the
greatest chance of success we must
immediately give them a cochlear implant
or hearing aid after all we live in a
world with sound as cherish the world
where a significant amount of
information is disseminated via audio
channels verbally an access to that
information and our ability to interact
and that can communicate with those
around us largely depends on one’s
ability to hear it shouldn’t but this is
how it is know myself and many other
deaf individuals were led to believe
from a very young age to be successful
we needed to have a hearing aids and
implant yeah my hearing aids would solve
all my problems and I’d no longer have
any difficulty communicating with my
friends and family you know what I
quickly realized was despite having even
the most powerful technology despite the
hours of speech therapy didn’t put out a
class in elementary and middle school
and so on I still struggled though
always situations in which my hearing
aid didn’t help me and in fact they
often made my life a lot more difficult
because they perpetuated this myth that
as soon as I put them in I would always
suddenly a hearing person able to
understand everyone and everything
around me but you have to understand
what deafness is right deafness is much
more than just how they have self sound
and it’s also about the clarity of that
sound so to help people understand what
my life is like as a deaf individual I
use an analogy imagine you’re watching a
foreign language film okay you hear
dialogues you hear conversations being
had you don’t actually know what they’re
saying turning the volume up on the TV
it’s not going to help you understand
what’s being said anymore
now apply that same concept to cochlear
implants and hearing aids always it does
is amplified gibberish and knowledge
that I’m not able to interpret or
understand I won’t be able to understand
anything
even with my hearing aid the most
powerful technology unless I have access
to non verbal or visual forms of
communication whether that be sign
language through much time at which
interpreter close caption and so I can
read what’s being said or having access
to full Facebook button so I can nibbly
and you know it’s funny I truly grew up
or even that I was born in a world that
just wasn’t designed to finally of
individuals like myself you know but uh
ironically research shows that the
majority of communication is nonverbal
think about that the majority of how we
interact connect and communicate with
those around us it’s not really
depending on what you what you hear but
from what you see you know what asking
the wrong question the question is not
how can we give this deaf baby access to
sound but rather how can we give them
access to language language acquisition
is the end goal for all children both
hearing and death healing babies healing
babies can acquire language skills
through sign language exposure before
they can even read write a speech no
later in life I realize my stoop
did not come from the technology behind
my ears my ability to truly interact and
understand those around me came from
whether or not I had access to visual
forms of communication no I imagine a
future where it’s not just the Deaf who
benefit from cyanide with dispersion and
other forms of nonverbal communication
that’s everyone and moreover I envision
a future in which learning sign language
and CN sign language it’s just as common
and mainstream at learning how to speak
thank you [Applause]
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